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Duo SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) For WordPress | Duo SSO Login

SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin for WordPress to achieve Duo SAML SSO for WordPress for secure login into your WordPress using Duo as a SAML provider. In this guide, we will go step-by-step to configure Duo as IdP (Identity Provider) and WordPress as SP (Service Provider) for SSO login.

You can visit our SSO plugin for WordPress to know more about the other features we provide.

To configure Duo as SAML IdP with WordPress, you will need to install the miniOrange SAML SP SSO plugin.

Follow the following steps to Configure Duo as IdP:

  • In the miniOrange SAML SP SSO plugin, navigate to Service Provider Metadata tab. Here, you can find the SP metadata such as SP Entity ID and ACS (AssertionConsumerService) URL which are required to configure the Identity Provider.

Metadata - SSO data of WordPress site

  • Login with your DUO Administrator Console.

Credentials - Duo Admin Login

  • Select Applications tab from left menu pane, then click on Protect an Application.

  • Navigate - Applications & Click - Protect an App

    • Search for Generic Service Provider.
    • Then, select Single Sign-On application and click on Protect button.

    • Navigate - Generic Service Provider & Click - Protect button

      • Select Single Sign-On tab from the left menu pane and click on Add Source button.

      • Click - Add Source

        • Select Authentication Source as SAML Identity Provider and click on Add SAML Identity Provider button.

        • Select - SAML as Authentication Source & Click - ADD SAML IDP

          • To Configure SAML Identity Provider navigate to Configure Single Sign-On tab and provide the following values:

          • Display Name Provide a Service Provider name.
            Entity ID Enter SP Entity ID from Service Provider Metadata tab of the plugin.
            Single Sign-On URL Enter ACS (Assertion Consumer Service) URL from Service Provider Metadata tab of the plugin.
            Existing Certificate Upload the Certificate from Service Provider Metadata tab of the plugin.

            Navigate - Settings enter the details

            • Click on Save to save your configuration.
            • Now navigate to Configure SAML Identity Provider tab to download the XML metadata file, this will be required to configure the plugin.

            • DUO IDP - Download Metadata File

              You have successfully configured Duo as SAML IdP (Identity Provider) for achieving Duo SSO login into your WordPress (WP) Site.


              In the SAML SSO plugin for WordPress, go to the IDP Configuration tab of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the SSO Plugin for WordPress:

              A. By uploading IDP metadata:

              • Click on Upload IDP metadata button.
              • Enter the Identity Provider Name
              • You can either upload a metadata file and click on Upload button or use a metadata URL and click on Fetch Metadata.
              SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-upload metadata

              B.Manual Configuration:

              • Provide the required settings (i.e. Identity Provider Name, IDP Entity ID or Issuer, SAML Login URL, X.509 Certificate) as provided by your Identity Provider and click on the Save button.
              • Click on Test configuration to check the attributes and values sent by IDP.
              SAML SSO for WordPress | Test configuration

              Step 3: Attribute Mapping

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              Note: To configure attribute mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


              • In the free plugin, only NameID is supported for Email and Username attributes of the WordPress user.
              • When a user performs SSO, the NameID value sent by the IDP will get mapped to the email and username of the WordPress user.
              SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-attribute mapping

              In the SAML SSO plugin for WordPress, go to the Service Provider Setup tab of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the SSO Plugin for WordPress:

              A. By uploading IDP metadata:

              • Click on Upload IDP metadata button.
              • Enter the Identity Provider Name
              • You can either upload a metadata file and click on Upload button or use a metadata URL and click on Fetch Metadata.

              B.Manual Configuration:

              • Provide the required settings (i.e. Identity Provider Name, IDP Entity ID or Issuer, SAML Login URL, X.509 Certificate) as provided by your Identity Provider and click on the Save button.
              • Click on Test configuration to check the attributes and values sent by IDP.
              SAML SSO for WordPress | Test configuration

              Step 3: Attribute Mapping

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              Note: To configure attribute mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


              • Attribute Mapping feature allows you to map the user attributes sent by the IDP during SSO to the user attributes at WordPress.
              • In SAML Plugin for WordPress, go to Attribute/Role Mapping tab and fill up the following fields in Attribute Mapping section.

              NOTE: If you click on Test Configuration button in Service Provider Setup tab and authenticate with your IDP, you can see a list of attributes sent by the IDP in the Attribute/Role mapping tab. This information can be used to provide the above mapping.


              In the SAML SSO plugin for WordPress, go to the Service Provider Setup tab of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the SSO Plugin for WordPress:

              A. By uploading IDP metadata:

              • Click on Upload IDP metadata button.
              • Enter the Identity Provider Name
              • You can either upload a metadata file and click on Upload button or use a metadata URL and click on Fetch Metadata.
              • In the Premium plugin, you can enable auto-sync for the metadata URL which will auto-update the plugin configuration as per the IDP metadata after a set interval of time
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              B.Manual Configuration:

              • Provide the required settings (i.e. Identity Provider Name, IDP Entity ID or Issuer, SAML Login URL, X.509 Certificate) as provided by your Identity Provider and click on the Save button.
              • Click on Test configuration to check the attributes and values sent by IDP.
              Test configuration - SAML SSO for WordPress

              • In the Premium Plugin, you can provide the SAML Logout URL to achieve Single Logout on your WordPress site.

              Note and Contact Us - SSO between two WordPress sites

              Note: To configure attribute mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


              • Attribute Mapping feature allows you to map the user attributes sent by the IDP during SSO to the user attributes at WordPress.
              • In SAML Plugin for WordPress, go to Attribute/Role Mapping tab and fill up the following fields in Attribute Mapping section.
              Login-attribute mapping - SAML SSO for WordPress

              • Custom Attribute Mapping: This feature allows you to map any attribute sent by the IDP to the usermeta table of WordPress.
              Login-attribute mapping - SAML SSO for WordPress

              Step 4: Role Mapping

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              Note: To configure role mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


              • In the free plugin, you can choose a Default Role which will be assigned to all the non-admin users when they perform SSO.
              • Go to Attribute/Role mapping tab and navigate to Role Mapping section.
              • Select the Default Role and click on the Update button.
              SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-role mapping

              Step 4: Role Mapping

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              Note: To configure role mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


                In the standard plugin, you can choose a default role which will be assigned to all the non-admin users when they perform SSO.

              • Go to Attribute/Role mapping tab and navigate to Role Mapping section.
              • Select the Default Role and click on the Save button.
              SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-role mapping

              This feature allows you to assign and manage roles of the users when they perform SSO. Along with the default WordPress roles, this is compatible with any custom roles as well.

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              Note: To configure role mapping for multiple identity providers, follow the setup guide here. This feature is available in the Enterprise plan.


              • From the Attribute Mapping section of the plugin, provide a mapping for the field named Group/Role. This attribute will contain the role related information sent by the IDP and will be used for Role Mapping.
              • Navigate to role mapping section and provide the mappings for the highlighted roles.
              Login-role mapping - SAML SSO for WordPress

              • For example, If you want a user whose Group/Role attribute value is wp-editor to be assigned as an Editor in WordPress, just provide the mapping as wp-editor in the Editor field of Role Mapping section.

              Step 5: SSO settings

              • In the free plugin you can add a Single Sign-On button by enabling Add a Single Sign-On button on the WordPress Login Page toggle in Option 1.
              SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-SSO button

              • If your WordPress theme supports login widget, you can add a login widget to enable SP-Initiated SSO on your site.
              • Navigate to Redirection and SSO links tab and follow the given steps given under Option 2: Use a Widget to add a login widget on your site.
              SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-sso setting

              Step 5: SSO settings

              In the Standard plugin you can enable SP-initiated SSO using the following options.

              • Auto-Redirection from site: If this option is enabled, any unauthenticated user trying to access your site will get redirected to the IDP login page and after successful authentication, they will be redirected back to the same page on your site which they were trying to access.
              • Steps:

                • Go to Redirection and SSO Links tab of the plugin and navigate to Option 1: Auto - Redirection from site.
                • Enable Redirect to IDP if user not logged in [PROTECT COMPLETE SITE]option.

                SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-optin 1

              • Auto-Redirection from WordPress Login: If this option is enabled, any unauthenticated user trying to access the default WordPress login page will get redirected to the IDP login page for authentication. After successful authentication, they will be redirected back to the WordPress site.
              • Steps:

                • Go to Redirection and SSO Links tab of the plugin and navigate to Option 2: Auto- Redirection from WordPress Login.
                • Enable Redirect to IDP from WordPress Login Page option.
                SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-optin 2

                NOTE: Please enable the Backdoor login and note down the backdoor URL. This will allow you to access the WordPress login page in case you get locked out of the IDP.


              • SSO Links: You can add SSO links anywhere on your site using the Shortcode and Widget provided in Redirection and SSO Links tab > Option 3: SSO Links section of the plugin
              • SAML SSO for WordPress | Login-optin 3

              In the Premium plugin you can enable SP-initiated SSO using the following options.

              • Auto-Redirection from site: If this option is enabled, any unauthenticated user trying to access your site will get redirected to the IDP login page and after successful authentication they will be redirected back to the same page on your site which they were trying to access.
              • Steps:

                • Go to Redirection and SSO Links tab of the plugin and navigate to Option 1 : Auto-Redirection from site.
                • Enable Redirect to IDP if user not logged in [PROTECT COMPLETE SITE] option.
                Login-optin 1 - SAML SSO for WordPress

              • Auto-Redirection from WordPress Login: If this option is enabled, any unauthenticated user trying to access the default WordPress login page will get redirected to the IDP login page for authentication. After successful authentication, they will be redirected back to the WordPress site.
              • Steps:

                • Go to Redirection and SSO Links tab of the plugin and navigate to Option 2: Auto-Redirection from WordPress Login.
                • Enable Redirect to IDP from WordPress Login Page option.
                Login-optin 2 - SAML SSO for WordPress

                NOTE: Please enable the Backdoor login and note down the backdoor URL. This will allow you to access the WordPress login page in case you get locked out of the IDP login.


              • Login Button: You can add a customized login button anywhere on your site or WordPress login page by navigating to Option 3: Login Button section of Redirection and SSO Links tab.
              Login-optin 3 - SAML SSO for WordPress

              • SSO Links: You can add SSO links anywhere on your site using the Shortcode and Widget provided in Option 4: SSO Links section of Redirection and SSO Links tab.
              Login-optin 4 - SAML SSO for WordPress

              Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to authenticate themselves for two or more factors, in order to gain access to company resources, applications, or a VPN (OpenVPN in this case). Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) means that users need to provide additional verification factors apart from their username and passwords thus increasing the security of the organization's resources. Checkout more about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) here.

              Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to authenticate themselves for two or more factors, in order to gain access to company resources, applications, or a VPN (OpenVPN in this case). Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) means that users need to provide additional verification factors apart from their username and passwords thus increasing the security of the organization's resources. Checkout more about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) here.

              Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to authenticate themselves for two or more factors, in order to gain access to company resources, applications, or a VPN (OpenVPN in this case). Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) means that users need to provide additional verification factors apart from their username and passwords thus increasing the security of the organization's resources. Checkout more about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) here.

              Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to authenticate themselves for two or more factors, in order to gain access to company resources, applications, or a VPN (OpenVPN in this case). Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) means that users need to provide additional verification factors apart from their username and passwords thus increasing the security of the organization's resources. Checkout more about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) here.



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